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CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investment in European SMEs, has appointed Stefano Zavattaro as head of its Italian branch.
Zavattaro, Partner and Country Manager, will be responsible for CAPZA’s investments in Italian SMEs and will support the transalpine development projects of CAPZA’s French, Spanish and German portfolio companies.
Zavattaro has held various positions throughout his career. After graduating in Economics from Rome’s Sapienza University and specializing in Finance at the London Business School in London, he worked as a manager for the multinational General Electric where he participated in numerous M&A and private equity transactions
Trinity Consultants (Trinity), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired SESPE Consulting (SESPE), a California-based provider of environmental compliance and permitting services including air quality, stormwater and water quality, and land use planning, to clients across a diverse set of industries.
Trinity is a provider of regulatory-driven environmental, health & safety and engineering consulting services. Trinity specialises in highly technical, compliance-driven services with a core presence in air quality and an expanding presence in adjacencies such as commissioning, qualification and validation, process safety management, toxicology, acoustics and water quality. Trinity operates from over 70 offices worldwide,
Morgan Stanley alums Justin Bernier and Patrick Kennedy have launched All Source Investment Management, a partnership aimed at providing the growing accredited investor market with access to alternative investment opportunities including hedge fund and private equity investments.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
American Pacific Group (APG), a San Francisco-based private equity firm, together with Joe Falsetti of Dana Holdings, has formed Yukon Wellness Holdings (Yukon Wellness), a company that will serve as a platform to acquire and grow consumer wellness brands. Simultaneously, Yukon Wellness acquired Eu Natural, a fast-growing provider of vitamin and mineral nutritional supplement products.
Yukon Wellness is at the intersection of several key trends in the industry, including increased consumer focus on wellness & self-directed care, shift in channel share from traditional retail to ecommerce channels, and the emergence of at-scale ecommerce sellers in search of growth support. Yukon
Car Wash Owners Network (CWON), a portfolio company of Baltimore-based Access Holdings, has closed its investment in Okie Express Auto Wash, a car wash operator in the Oklahoma City market. Financial terms were have been disclosed.Founded in 2008, Okie owns and operates 11 premier express car wash locations known across Oklahoma City. Okie washes more than one million cars annually and supports multiple local charities.
CWON is partnering with Okie CEO Mike North and COO Steve Holcomb to support the company’s next stage of accelerated growth.
Kevin McAllister, Managing Partner and Founder of Access Holdings, says: “We are
STAR Capital Partnership (STAR), has acquired Rail Operations (UK) Limited (ROUK), a provider of rolling stock movement and storage services to the UK rail industry through its subsidiaries Rail Operations Group Limited (ROG) and Rail Operations (Rolling Stock Management) Limited (Traxion). In addition, ROUK has established a new subsidiary, Orion, to provide high speed logistics and express freight services, focused on accelerating modal shift from air/road to rail by offering a fast, cost effective and environmentally-friendly solution. STAR will acquire a majority stake in the Group, alongside existing management. Neil Bennett, a highly-experienced rail industry professional, will be appointed Executive Chairman
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a provider of portfolio optimisation services for the global financial services market, has secured a USD51 million (GBP38 million) minority investment from Spectrum Equity, a growth equity firm focused on internet-enabled software and information services companies. The investment will accelerate the next phase of Quantile’s growth as it develops new services and expands into new markets to better serve its clients. Spectrum is the first institutional investor to back Quantile’s experienced founding team.
At the core of Quantile’s platform is a powerful optimisation engine providing advanced compression and risk rebalancing services to banks, hedge funds and other financial
Weezy, a UK-based on-demand supermarket that delivers groceries in 15 minutes on average, has raised USD20 million in Series A funding to expand its grocery delivery service across London and the UK.
The investment round was led by New York-based VC Left Lane Capital, with participation from UK-based DN Capital, as well as existing investors Heartcore Capital and angel investors including Chris Muhr, founder of Groupon.
Left Lane Capital managing partner Harley Miller will join Weezy’s board following the deal. The capital will be used to expand the company’s London-based team by 50 employees over the next four months.
“This
Sandberg Capital has closed its second private equity fund – Sandberg Investment Fund II – at EUR109 million. For the first time Sandberg welcomes the European Investment Fund and Tatra banka among its investors.
Holland Mountain has appointed Kyri Yiannakis as Head of Client Development. In this role, Yiannakis will oversee all of Holland Mountain’s commercial activity, continuing to drive the exceptional service delivered to Holland Mountain’s Private Capital clients.
Leveraging 13 years of Private Capital technology experience, Yiannakis will also expand the reach of Holland Mountain’s Private Capital Data Platform, helping more firms to achieve one source of truth, to automate manual processes and to unlock the true value of their data.
Yiannakis brings significant growth experience with him, having been a founding member of iLEVEL after its spinout from Blackstone. He was
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